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January 09, 2007
Hey, Randy Johnson....
...you're going to get $71 million (plus interest) over the next six years and be able to work just down the street from your house!
How do you feel about that?
Some guys, huh?
Posted by Steve Lombardi at January 9, 2007 04:49 PM
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I hate him. F- him, he's dead to me.
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at January 9, 2007 05:20 PM
First you guys complain when he's here, now you complain when he's gone.
I'm sure he'll miss the fine NY fans.
Posted by: RICH at January 9, 2007 06:56 PM
While a lot of people are complaining *when* he's gone, most of them aren't complaining *that* he's gone. There's a big difference there.
Fans are getting out the residual complaining about the fact that he was an overpaid, thin-skinned failure in New York. Considering what he was paid (just less than $32M) and what he was brought in to deliver (playoff success), I think that the fans have plenty of justification to complain.
Posted by: Mr. Furious at January 9, 2007 07:35 PM
Meh, that first sentence should be:
While a lot of people are complaining when he's gone, most of them aren't complaining *that* he's gone.
Posted by: Mr. Furious at January 9, 2007 07:38 PM
Jeez. I'm apparently suffering from a brain cloud today. Never mind.
Posted by: Mr. Furious at January 9, 2007 07:40 PM
Eh, one good year, one bad year. And it seems that bad year may be attributed to luck.
Oh well, what's done is done; best of luck in AZ.
Speaking of lefties, this Igawa guy seems to be a real character. Courtesy of BB, with a nod to NYYF
http://tinyurl.com/yfek2x
Posted by: Raf at January 9, 2007 10:25 PM
Great post Steve, Peter Abraham has a great picture of Johnson as well, cheesing away. He looks like a guy that just got an 11th-hour pardon from death row.
I wonder if A-Rod is watching...? Not to bring him up again, but there's some speculation that he'll opt out after this season because he can actually get more money. I don't see anyway he can get more than $85 million for 3 years, no matter how crazy the market has been.
Posted by: JeremyM at January 9, 2007 11:58 PM
And oh, the best part of him going to the Yanks is he actually has a decent haircut now.
Posted by: JeremyM at January 10, 2007 12:00 AM
He looks like a guy that just got an 11th-hour pardon from death row.
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Ha, ha, ha. That is so true. Have you ever seen Randy happier? He's so glad to be out of New York it looked like he was going to do a song and dance at his press conference.
He basically said all the right things (didn't complain about the fans, took responsibility, etc., etc.). Fans like to boo, so he'll probably get booed when he comes back to the Bronx, but otherwise his short stay with the Yanks just feels like a odd little quickie marriage that will be nothing but a footnote on their resumes.
Posted by: baileywalk at January 10, 2007 01:41 AM